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Asbestos is a naturally occurring mineral known for its durability and fire-resistant properties. In the past, the substance has been used in a wide variety of building materials, including insulation products, siding, cements, flooring and roofing, to name a few. When asbestos-containing materials become damaged or disturbed, toxic asbestos fibers can be released into the air. If these ...

The Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO) will be having its sixth Annual International Asbestos Awareness Conference on the weekend of April 9-11, 2010 in Chicago, Illinois at the Marriott Renaissance Hotel. The conference is scheduled to provide families, employees and scientists throughout the world with information surrounding the dangers of asbestos exposure. ADAO also plans to ...

Losing her husband to a deadly asbestos-induced disease, Dorothy Roberts, 72, is one of 12 widows being portrayed during Australia’s National Asbestos & Mesothelioma Day. The ACTU (Australian Council of Trade Unions) will join with asbestos victims and support groups to carry out a day of events that will punctuate the dangers of asbestos. Regarded as the “silent killer,” mesothelioma is a ...

Anti-asbestos campaigners have urged more criminal prosecutions against the global directors of asbestos corporations, following the recent conviction of European industrialists Stephen Schmidheiny and Baron Cartier de Marchienne in Italy. The call was made this weekend at a meeting of Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO). The ADAO has organized a special ...

Federal lawmakers designated the first week of April as National Asbestos Awareness Week. The purpose of the designation is to increase awareness with the general public of the dangers associated with exposure to asbestos fibers. Asbestos is a mineral fiber that has been used commonly in a variety of building construction materials for insulation and as a fire-retardant. According to ...

On March 27th, the U.S. Senate passed a bipartisan resolution to create the 11th consecutive National Asbestos Awareness Week. The week of recognition for asbestos, known to cause mesothelioma, asbestosis and lung cancer, takes place during the first week of April. Senate Resolution 125 also urges the Surgeon General of the United States to warn and educate people about the ...

Up until the late 1970s, many different types of building products and materials commonly used in residential and commercial buildings contained asbestos. Today, many of these properties still contain these materials that could be causing a health threat to any building occupants. As these materials age or become disturbed, asbestos fibers can be released into the air. Exposure to ...

In February of this year, Senator Max Baucus introduced legislation which passed the Senate declaring the first week of April to be National Asbestos Awareness Week. This coincides with the Global Asbestos Awareness Week (GAAW) that occurs on those same dates. Asbestos is a naturally occurring mineral fiber mined from the Earth. In the past it was regularly added to building products ...

The Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO), representing thousands of asbestos victims, physicians and scientists around the world, urges the Canadian Parliament to oppose the Quebec government’s $58 million loan guarantee that would enable ...

In 2008, the governors of Georgia, Michigan and several other states proclaimed September 2008 to be Indoor Mold Awareness Month. Earlier this year the Nevada State Legislature also designated September 2009 as National Indoor Toxic Mold Awareness Month. This special designation for September is meant to increase public awareness of how indoor molds can adversely affect human health. Since mold ...

The Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO), which combines education, advocacy, and community to help ensure justice for asbestos victims, today issued this statement from ADAO President and Co-Founder Linda Reinstein, in opposition to the legislation introduced today by U.S. Sens. David Vitter (R-LA) and Tom Udall (D-N.M.) inappropriately named the “Chemical Safety for the 21st ...

The following statement was issued today by Linda Reinstein, Co-Founder, President & CEO of the Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization, regarding the 2012 United States Geological Survey report about the dramatic increase in asbestos importation to the United States: "As a Mesothelioma widow and asbestos awareness advocate, I was appalled and shocked to ...

The Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO), which combines education, advocacy and community as the leading U.S. organization serving as the voice of asbestos victims, today applauds Senator Max Baucus (D-MT) and cosponsors for again introducing a resolution declaring the first week of April as “National Asbestos Awareness Week” that seeks to ...

Tradespeople are putting themselves at risk of an incurable cancer because they don’t know enough about asbestos, says the British Lung Foundation. Asbestos causes a chest cancer called mesothelioma, which kills one person every five hours in the UK. Tradespeople such as builders, plumbers, carpenters, electricians and gas fitters are most at risk of getting this cruel disease. A survey carried ...

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